EVs cut brake dust pollution by 83%!

[Tomentose]

When i take my dog to the park 7 minutes away, i start the drive at 90%, get there at 91% and get home back at 90%. I use sport mode all the time as it has phenomenal regen braking especially in rush-hour traffic. I routinely get home from a 50km daily commute to work with a 20kWh/100km result. the KIA Nero EV at work get 33 on average... Sport mode all the way if you hate 1pD like i do

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[PreservedSwine]

Then you'll be replacing rotors and pads all the time.

A couple of things, first, brake pads are very inexpensive, secondly, I believe you have that backwards (ceramic brakes vs semi-metallic.) Don't get me wrong, I think it's great that we barely have to use the physical brakes too decelerate. It's just that going ev to eliminate brake dust sounds like marketing, lol.

 

[RLXXI]

A couple of things, first, brake pads are very inexpensive, secondly, I believe you have that backwards (ceramic brakes vs semi-metallic.) Don't get me wrong, I think it's great that we barely have to use the physical brakes too decelerate. It's just that going ev to eliminate brake dust sounds like marketing, lol.

I work on a fleet of vehicles and we switched to ceramic pads. Now we're replacing rotors along with pads because they wear them down faster.

 

[PreservedSwine]

I work on a fleet of vehicles and we switched to ceramic pads. Now we're replacing rotors along with pads because they wear them down faster.

I'll take your word for it, I just have my wife's car that uses ceramic. Still on original pads after 40,000 miles plenty left on them. I thought our trucks might also since I've never seen a bit of brake dust?
anyway it is pretty sweet we don't need to use our brakes. Biggest advantage imo is keeping vehicle out of the shop and on the road

 

[RLXXI]

I'll take your word for it, I just have my wife's car that uses ceramic. Still on original pads after 40,000 miles plenty left on them. I thought our trucks might also since I've never seen a bit of brake dust?
anyway it is pretty sweet we don't need to use our brakes. Biggest advantage imo is keeping vehicle out of the shop and on the road

We might be using inferior parts. Not heat treated properly etc.. everything we use comes out of China so there's that.

 

[hb.sagen]

This is a good point. We may be more at risk of brakes needing service due to lack of use.

We have to have our cars inspected every other year, by EU regulation. It costs a lot and any medium to major fault needs to fixed or the vehicle is delicensed. Mostly a good thing to get road unworthy cars of those.

But, the number one cause of failure to pass is rusted disk breaks on EVs. I hate to admit that i now love 1PD, and very rarely use the brake pedal. This needs to change when the winter comes.

 

[watts/up]

All this talk about disc brakes reminded me of this previous post of a test mule with eight lugs and possible drum brakes all the way around. With regen doing the heavy lifting…

 

[mr.Magoo]

I don't care for it either but that's how you get maximum regenerative braking.

Not entirely correct.
You can get the same with 2-pedal.

 

[woodsman]

Well, I love 1 pedal. this morning somebody did a dumb thing and I had to hit the brakes... I wondered how long it has been since i had used the brake pedal. I haven't used sport mode but will try it after all this. I live 5.5 miles from town, it is pretty hilly here, I get a kick out of going to the C store and see if I have more range then what I left home with. For a long time I wondered if it took less energy to go up the hill than what you could gain going down it? Well, I have fun trying, coast, back off, coast back off. Love my Lightning.

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